November 2008
8 posts
Growing A Jungle
Amazon S3 Storing 29 Billion Objects
S3 is a mighty river serving a teeming, impenetrable mass of digital objects. Seven of those 29 billion objects were added last summer alone.
But will it scale? And should it?
S3 is a pretty juicy target for anyone who wants to access the files that people and organizations care about. I’m VERY interested in seeing the internal controls that Amazon...
More Ubuntu Tuning
Use Power Management settings to set netbook to suspend when lid is closed.
To disable password on wake-from-suspend gconf-editor /apps/gnome-power-manager/lock uncheck suspend.
OS X Dashboard, Ubuntu Style
install screenlets
enable compiz widget plugin
use f9 to show/hide widgets
install brightside to enable hot corners (called Screen Actions in preferences menu for some reason) use custom action to run command:
dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.freedesktop.compiz /org/freedesktop/compiz/widget/allscreens/toggle_key org.freedesktop.compiz.activate string:'root' int32:`xwininfo -root | grep...
Is that a well-designed coin in your pocket?
…or are you just commemorating Dutch architecture?
I read about how Stani Michiels used Python and other free software to design this €5 coin, but I only just saw the picture below. Wow, no wonder it took scripting to make it. The portrait of Queen Beatrix is made from the names of architects, and the tops of the books on the tails side form the shape of the Netherlands.
There is some...
Ubuntu 8.10 on Dell Mini 9
My Mini 9 came with Ubuntu’s 8.04 “Hardy Heron” release, and I love it! … except for one thing: the ssh client in that release cannot connect to remote servers through a NAT firewall when using wi-fi. Ssh hangs after login, then times out. This makes it pretty much useless. Boo.
But I was emboldened by a few stories of people who bought Mini-9s with XP and installed Ubuntu...
Download killed the radio star
Reposting a comment I left on a blog post which was, itself, a response to another blog post:
“Saying music must be free removes the artists from the art. Or it will have that effect, eventually.”
Maybe you are considering the wrong model? If what you’re concerned with is the up-front cost of composing and recording music, why are you trying to cover those costs through distribution fees?...